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(No Model.) E. W. WHITTAKER.

TENNIS SASH.

No. 449,020. Patented Mai. 24, 1891.

UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

EDVARD XV, HITTAKER, OF NENV YORK, N. Y.

TENNlS-SASH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,020, dated March24, 1891.

Application filed February 3, 1891 Serial No. 380,062. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, EDWARD W.WH1TTAKER, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Tennis-Sashes, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to loose flowing tennis-sashes which are usuallymade of only one thickness of silk. It has been found that such sashesare apt to ride up or down, so as to expose the tops of the trousers ofthe wearer. My invention is designed to prevent this inconvenience, and,further, to provide a sash with means which will enable it to be changedin width and appearance when desired.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I shows in perspective my improvedsash. Figs. II, III, and IV are sectional views through the frontportion thereof. Fig. V is a detail view of one end of thestiffening-strip, showing the rounding thereof.

My invention consists in providing the upper and lower edges of thefront portion of a loose flowing sash l with stiff strips of leather orother suitable material 2 2, which preferably extend only sufficientlyfrom side to side to pass half-way around the wearers waist.

In Fig. I I have dotted in the position which the buttons of the wearerstrousers (portions of which are shown at 3 3) will assume when the sashtends to ride down over the op of the trousers. The tops of the trousersthemselves also act to detain the stiff strips and so prevent theuncovering of the waistband.

\Vhile the sash may be worn as shown in Fig. I, it is usual to turn inthe edges of the sash over the strips 2 2, as shown in Figs. II and III,or even to the extent shown in Fig. IV, altering the shape and width ofthe sash without at all impairing, but rather assisting, the action ofthe buttons and tops of the trousers, as described.

The strips are preferably rounded, as shown in Fig. V, so that therewill be no danger of cutting the material owing to sharp projectingedges. The stiffening strip or strips herein described are preferably,as shown, at both the top and bottom edges of the sash and are alwaysarranged longitudinally thereof; but I may in practice use a strip onlyon one edge.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A tennis-sash having a longitudinal stiffening-strip secured along anedge thereof and adapted to be folded within the sash, substantially asdescribed.

2. A tennis-sash having longitudinal stiffening-strips secured along theedges thereof and adapted to befolded within the sash, substantially asdescribed.

W. \VIII'lTAKER.

Witnesses:

HARRY O. KNIGHT, M. V. Brncoon.

